transitive v. To set at rest; to free, as from anything harmful or oppressive; to relieve; to clear; to liberate.

transitive v. To release from obligation, accusation, penalty, or the like; to absolve; to acquit.

transitive v. To discharge, as an obligation or duty; to meet and satisfy, as a claim or debt; to make payment for or of; to requite; to repay.

transitive v. To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; to conduct; to acquit; -- used reflexively.

transitive v. To carry through; to go through to the end.

transitive v. To have done with; to cease from; to stop; hence, to depart from; to leave; to forsake

intransitive v. To go away; to depart; to stop doing a thing; to cease.

from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Discharged or released from a debt, penalty, or obligation; on even terms; absolved; free; clear.

To satisfy, as a claim or debt; discharge, as an obligation or duty; make payment for or of; pay; repay; requite.

To set free; release; absolve; acquit; exonerate.

To free, as from something harmful or oppressing; relieve; clear; liberate: with of.

To meet the claims upon, or expectations entertained of; conduct; acquit: used reflexively.

To complete; spend: said of time.

To depart from; go away from; leave.

To resign; give up; let go.

To forsake; abandon.

In archery, to discharge; shoot.

To extract; get rid of.

To remove by force.

To cease; stop; give over.

Synonyms and Desert, Abandon, etc. See forsake.

n. Same as queet.

n. The popular name of numerous small birds of Jamaica, belonging to different genera and families.

n. A term introduced by Professor H. A. Newton to denote the point on the celestial sphere from which the motion of a body is at any moment directed: thus, the earth's quit is always a point on the ecliptic about 90° east of the sun. The quit is opposite to the goal. See goal, 7.

Examples

Sports figures, as a rule, seem to be the ones least likely to understand the word quit: Those who lack it in their dictionaries and vocabularies include the NASCAR owner and former driver Richard Childress, William "the Refrigerator" Perry, Dwyane Wade of the Miami Heat, as well as the Philadelphia Flyers, the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Chicago Bears, and of course the Red Sox.

Palin 'quit' the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission after exposing the ethics violations of her own party, she then went on to become Alaska's first female and youngest governor ... but that would be something called 'context and contrast' ... two key elements that must be removed in order to pursue 'The Politics of Personsal Destruction'. mark ferbet, kansas city, mo.